John Paul Stevens

Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

John Paul Stevens was born in Chicago, Illinois, April 20, 1920. He married Maryan Mulholland, and has four children - John Joseph (deceased), Kathryn, Elizabeth Jane, and Susan Roberta. He received an A.B. from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. He served in the United States Navy from 1942–1945, and was a law clerk to Justice Wiley Rutledge of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1947 Term. He was admitted to law practice in Illinois in 1949. He was Associate Counsel to the Subcommittee on the Study of Monopoly Power of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1951–1952, and a member of the Attorney General’s National Committee to Study Antitrust Law, 1953–1955. He was Second Vice President of the Chicago Bar Association in 1970. From 1970–1975, he served as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. President Ford nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat December 19, 1975.

Retired Justice John Paul Stevens, appearing before the Senate Rules Committee Wednesday, called for a constitutional amendment to reinstate campaign finance regulations the Supreme Court invalidated through a series of recent decisions, including the 2010 case known as Citizens United.

Noting that retired Justice John Paul Stevens rarely agreed with his conservative positions, Sen. Cruz said "there was no justice whose questions were more incisive, more friendly and, frankly, more dangerous than Justice Stevens."

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said he is concerned by the proliferation of state laws tightening voter-identification rules but believes he ruled correctly in 2008 that an Indiana voter-ID law could stand.

California Gov. Jerry Brown says his decision to pick a young, government lawyer in Washington, D.C., to fill a vacancy on the state's highest court is "beyond reproach," brushing off critics who've questioned whether his candidate has the right background for the job.

Religion in politics and the signing of an agreement to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine are likely to be the focus of this Easter Sunday's political talk shows. Here are the lineups, as compiled by the Associated Press.